Ch.14,15, 16 Racism/mixing of people

As I read this three chapters what resigned with me the most was how from the very beginning of when Columbus set out for China, the world completely changed its tune. For many this meant New World and glory, but for others it meant destruction and the end of their Worlds. I cannot say that I don't have mixed feelings but I do. On one hand I can say that without the evasion of the Europeans there would be no mixing of people like me. I am also sad and angry to see what all these people went through on behalf of their conquerors, and I am glad that I was not born during this time. what caught my attention was that the idea of racism is really old and the discrimination that people suffered during this time was very drastic, but of course the same discrimination appears in our society as well. 

Greed and manipulation went hand and hand with both religion and those with wealth; certainly this is also true today, money can buy things such as in politics. But what doesn't make sense is how history from long time ago tells stories on how those people use to live, but yet we find that those same scenarios are happening in our Modern World today.  For instance the idea of the U.S. being involved in many of the world's problems and solutions- such as War in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and so on; this is what the traditional European approach did when they took over the world trade and commerce, and the discoveries of the Americas. Thus destroying the culture, the people and mixing new generations of people, but discriminating against them. So common today, the mixing of different cultures but yet we have seen that the U.S. has put the Japanese, Korean, and other racial groups in Intirnament camps to so call protect themselves from spies and so on. The amount of racism that was practiced before is being practiced today, the acceptance and tolerance for immigrants is the same, and the suffering of children who are mixed can be viewed in the same context as the children of Indians mixed with Spaniards, or the mixing of African Slaves and those Europeans. 

the way people were treated was unjust and un-human, animals get better treatment. this is true today still. I am just ill and sad for all that history has shown us and yet we still commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. But if we continue to act in those kinds of ways, through history we have seen that all empires and great political heads man one day will have a dooms day, and will bring down and break down what oppress those whom appear to be weak and unworthy.